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Fucking iPod is dead.
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What a fucking piece of shit. My new nano, less than 2 months old. I treat this thing like a baby. Always in a thick leather case, never dropped. No scratches or anything on it.

So I put "White Album" on there this morning and disconnect it from the charger. It snaps out just fine but the screen goes dark. No amount of prodding will get it to turn back on. I take the iPod out of the case and there is clearly something rattling around in there.

I swear, I have never had anything but problems with all types of Apple garbage. Their computers don't work, their software is shit, and now this thing does this to me. It was a gift, I never would have bought it. But fucking still...

So now I assume I'm going to have to go through 15 levels of Customer Service and pay half of what the fucking thing is worth to try and get this fixed.

What a way to ruin my fucking day. Piece of junk.

Ugh.


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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I feel your pain, I recently purchased a used 20g original ipod, still working last week. I wasn't expecting to get too much use out of it considering the older ones have moving parts which break in less than 3 years at best, but damn. I had this piece of shit for less than 7 days and I get the "sad" ipod screen, which basically means I'm fucked.

I still have a 2g nano, but its just not the same. I need to just bring my laptop and headphones with me.


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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I've had an old iPod for about 4 years now and it's never given me a problem. It froze once, but all you have to do is hold the menu button and the center button down for like 5 seconds and it restarts. Apple customer service is better than any other customer service I've experienced.
Check and see if its still under warranty. If it is, the repairs should be free.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Mmm, I have had a 20 GB Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen for more than 5 fucking years and it works likes it's brand new still. Good piece of hardware that is.

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: DragonChaser]
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I'm sure it's still under warranty.

Its the new 8GB Nano Video, so they haven't been selling them a year.

I'm heading off the Apple Store now.

If they give me any shit, I'm throwing an iMac off the fucking shelf and running out the door.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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hold up.  press down the center button and the one above it for about 5 seconds or longer wait a reasonable amount of time.  i had a prob similar to this. and i went to the store and they gave me this hint.  i have had to do it several times since.  :frown:


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: FurrowedBrow]
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Fuck ipods,get a creative Zen



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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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The very first Pod I got - I returned after a couple days, only because the display got all scratched up, even though I never rubbed it against anything.

Since then, I got myself a 4-GB Nano (original type) and a 30-GB Video Pod - both still work to this day.

I also have my Creative Zen Nomad which I prefer, and its display still looks as though it's brand new!


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Sell Your Soul]
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Well, I just fixed my ipod. Turns out smashing the bottom on a pad of paper is the solution to about 80% of the problems you could have.

Thank you for getting me all pissed off at apple again, performing your own customer service is way better.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I bought one and didn't use it for like 3 months. When i pulled it out of the box, i got about 3 days of use out of it before it did the same thing yours did.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Highland]
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I've had my 30 gigs ipod video for over 2 years. Dropped it plenty of times. Never a single problem. Battery hasn't degraded either.

It's the only apple product i've ever owned.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: The_Ghost]
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yeah dude do a hardware reset.

hold the center button and the top button down together for 20 seconds (until you hear it start clicking or see it do somthin)

its called a hard reset, usually clears up problems.


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"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: ZippoZ]
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Capatalistc nomad said:
yeah dude do a hardware reset.

hold the center button and the top button down together for 20 seconds (until you hear it start clicking or see it do somthin)

its called a hard reset, usually clears up problems.


So getting angry and snapping it in half wasn't a good thing then? check.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: The_Ghost]
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You should be straight. Comes with a 1 year warranty, it may just be a pain in the arse to get through all the customer service.

I had a 30gb iPod Photo for 3 years before it died on me. I replaced it with the 160gb Classic and have no problems with it.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: citricacidx]
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Those 30gb iPod photos are awesome, I've had mine since it came out (about 3-4 years ago?) and it's still going strong.

Been dropped, crashed, subjected to water etc and it's still fine.

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Thin White Duke]
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Yea I have had my 30gb ipod video for years and use it everyday for at least 2 hours a day. The headphone jack fucked up so I had to replace it myself but that was cake.

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Tangerines]
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Just back from the Apple Store.

What a fucking joke.

I signed up for a "Genius Bar" appointment and had the guy who helped me (not the genius) tell me that 99.9% of the time they will either be able to fix it on the spot or they will send you home with a new one.

So I wait around like an hour and talk to this guy. He takes one look at my iPod and says "Nope, its shot."

Apparently the case that I had bought FROM THE FUCKING APPLE STORE killed it. The case is soft leather and it has a little metal nub on the outside that holds the clip. Well, this little metal nub, if you keep it clipped to anything for any length of time will press on the iPod's innards and eventually break something in there off. Which you can hear rattling around in there.

He says my only option is to "Trade it in" on a newer model and get like $25 for it.

I could seriously fucking kick someone. I am going to cal Apple tomorrow and bitch them the fuck out because this absolutely fucking ridiculous.

What total and utter bullshit. I BOUGHT THIS FUCKING CASE FROM YOUR SHITTY STORE.

Fucking Christ.

Does anyone have a tech support 1800 number handy? Because I can't find it anywhere on their shitty website w/out being prompted 100 times to buy some Apple Support nonsense.

Oh fuck am I angry.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it.  In the law courts, in business, in government.  There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.    -Cormac MacCarthy

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Tangerines]
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One of the first things I did was get a short extension for the headphone jack.
I just plug whatever I need into the extension end, so the jack on the pod doesn't wear down.

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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Sell Your Soul]
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I dont like apple... Mostly because of fuckin iTunes. I hate M4A files. Fuck that copywritten shit. I got a CD-R filled with music from a friend at college that was in M4A format and I got a virus trying to find a program that could break the encryption and make them regular MP3's. That virus in result cost me $100 to get repaired.

You should seriously consider getting a Zune. I got a 30 gig for $98 at walmart around Christmas time.


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Re: Fucking iPod is dead. [Re: Madtowntripper]
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I've had my 80gb Video iPod for a while and it's still working.
My older 40gb iPod that I gave to my friend only just died and that was nearly 4 years old.
Trouble with technology is that it fails (and it comes down to bad luck). Sucks though; they should replace it free of charge if it died so soon. Especially since something designed for the iPod ended up killing it.

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